[Bug 1873052] Re: GNOME 3.36 Lands Scaled/Transformed Hardware Cursors Support and keeps another not scaled cursor mid screen

2020-05-05 Thread Ryan Thompson
For anyone else affected by this bug, I've written a script that toggles the scaling mode back and forth to fix the problem and then restore your desired scaling mode on each monitor. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome- shell/+bug/1875404/+attachment/5361667/+files/xrandr-fix.sh

[Bug 1875404] [NEW] Non-integer X11 scaling causes mouse from login screen to stick around

2020-04-27 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: If you enable fraction scaling and then login using an X11 session, the mouse cursor that existed on the login screen (gdm3) will persist after logging in. This mouse cursor continues to exist at the same pixel coordinates as when the login was completed. A new mouse cursor

[Bug 1722915] Re: Command-line upgrade from 16.10 to 17.04 failed

2017-10-11 Thread Ryan Thompson
For some reason, uninstalling vlc (which also automatically uninstalled a bunch of its dependencies) seems to have gotten around the problem, and I'm now running the upgrade. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1722915] [NEW] Command-line upgrade from 16.10 to 17.04 failed

2017-10-11 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: I ran "sudo do-release-upgrade" on my Ubuntu Server 16.10 system, and after a bunch of work, it said "Could not calculate the upgrade" and bailed out. I think I have a few packages installed from outside the Ubuntu repos, so that could be the problem, but the error message

[Bug 720912] Re: Maverick (through Precise) regression: Dell M1330 backlight brightness messed up

2014-11-17 Thread Ryan Thompson
Ok, I will do this when I have time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912 Title: Maverick (through Precise) regression: Dell M1330 backlight brightness messed up To manage

[Bug 720912] CRDA.txt

2014-11-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Attachment added: CRDA.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912/+attachment/4262087/+files/CRDA.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912 Title: Maverick

[Bug 720912] Re: Maverick (through Precise) regression: Dell M1330 backlight brightness messed up

2014-11-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Tags added: trusty ** Description changed: The Dell M1330 backlight has exactly 8 levels of brightness. I expect each press of the brightness adjustment keys to change the brightness by one level. When I use the keyboard to adjust the brightness in GNOME, it

[Bug 720912] BootDmesg.txt

2014-11-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Attachment added: BootDmesg.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912/+attachment/4262086/+files/BootDmesg.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912 Title:

[Bug 720912] CurrentDmesg.txt

2014-11-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Attachment added: CurrentDmesg.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912/+attachment/4262088/+files/CurrentDmesg.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912

[Bug 720912] ProcCpuinfo.txt

2014-11-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Attachment added: ProcCpuinfo.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912/+attachment/4262092/+files/ProcCpuinfo.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912

[Bug 720912] Lsusb.txt

2014-11-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Attachment added: Lsusb.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912/+attachment/4262091/+files/Lsusb.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912 Title:

[Bug 720912] Lspci.txt

2014-11-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Attachment added: Lspci.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912/+attachment/4262090/+files/Lspci.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912 Title:

[Bug 720912] UdevLog.txt

2014-11-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Attachment added: UdevLog.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912/+attachment/4262099/+files/UdevLog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912 Title:

[Bug 720912] ProcInterrupts.txt

2014-11-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Attachment added: ProcInterrupts.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912/+attachment/4262094/+files/ProcInterrupts.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 720912] WifiSyslog.txt

2014-11-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Attachment added: WifiSyslog.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912/+attachment/4262100/+files/WifiSyslog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912

[Bug 720912] UdevDb.txt

2014-11-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Attachment added: UdevDb.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912/+attachment/4262098/+files/UdevDb.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912 Title:

[Bug 720912] RfKill.txt

2014-11-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Attachment added: RfKill.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912/+attachment/4262097/+files/RfKill.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912 Title:

[Bug 720912] PulseList.txt

2014-11-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Attachment added: PulseList.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912/+attachment/4262096/+files/PulseList.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912 Title:

[Bug 720912] ProcModules.txt

2014-11-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Attachment added: ProcModules.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912/+attachment/4262095/+files/ProcModules.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912

[Bug 720912] IwConfig.txt

2014-11-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Attachment added: IwConfig.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912/+attachment/4262089/+files/IwConfig.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912 Title:

[Bug 720912] ProcEnviron.txt

2014-11-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Attachment added: ProcEnviron.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912/+attachment/4262093/+files/ProcEnviron.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912

[Bug 513450] Re: emacsclient.emacs23 -a should start the daemon using emacs23, not emacs

2012-07-09 Thread Ryan Thompson
** Changed in: emacs23 (Ubuntu) Status: Expired = Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513450 Title: emacsclient.emacs23 -a should start the daemon using emacs23, not

[Bug 513450] Re: emacsclient.emacs23 -a should start the daemon using emacs23, not emacs

2012-07-09 Thread Ryan Thompson
This is still an issue in 12.04. The bug is important if you want to have multiple versions of emacs available, and you want to use daemon mode. Suppose you have both emacs23 and emacs-snapshot installed, and /etc/alternatives/emacs points to /usr/bin/emacs23. In this case, any of the following

[Bug 991232] Re: 14e4:432b Regression in wireless performance when on battery power

2012-07-03 Thread Ryan Thompson
The bug was a regression in Maverick relative to Lucid, but it has been present in every release since Maverick, so at this point it's just a bug that has been around for at least 2 years. It may not be practical to fix the bug in the bcmwl drivers, but the workaround is only a two-line patch

[Bug 720912] Re: Maverick (and all later versions) regression: Dell M1330 backlight brightness messed up

2012-06-18 Thread Ryan Thompson
** Summary changed: - Maverick regression: Dell M1330 backlight brightness messed up + Maverick (and all later versions) regression: Dell M1330 backlight brightness messed up ** Description changed: The Dell M1330 backlight has exactly 8 levels of brightness. I expect each press of the

[Bug 995130] Re: BCM4321 Wireless dropping connection randomly with no indication

2012-06-07 Thread Ryan Thompson
After further testing over many days, I am almost certain that this problem is caused by the power-saving mode in the Broadcom drivers, which is enabled when the laptop is on battery by the script in /usr/lib /pm-utils/power.d/wireless which runs iwconfig eth2 power on. Manually running iwconfig

[Bug 604152] Re: unable to control+c out of sudo prompt when using zsh

2012-05-31 Thread Ryan Thompson
Yes, it seems to be fixed now. You can mark it resolved. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604152 Title: unable to control+c out of sudo prompt when using zsh To manage notifications

[Bug 994161] Re: Unity Super+[1-9] shortcuts to switch apps don't work consistently

2012-05-28 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected precise ** Description changed: I frequently use the Super + [0-9] keyboard shortcuts to switch to specific applications. However, these shortcuts usually fail to work when executed quickly. In order to ensure a successful application

[Bug 994161] GconfCompiz.txt

2012-05-28 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Attachment added: GconfCompiz.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/994161/+attachment/3167065/+files/GconfCompiz.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/994161

[Bug 1002053] [NEW] g++ Internal compiler error when compiling boost/smart_ptr/intrusive_ptr.hpp 1.49

2012-05-20 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: When compiling boost 1.49 on Ubuntu 11.10 wigh GCC version 4.6.1-9ubuntu3, I get an internal compiler error. The error happens when the following command is run in tools/quickbook: g++ -ftemplate-depth-300 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -g -g0

[Bug 543611] Re: emacsclient -c randomly crashes emacs about 1 in every 5 to 10 times

2012-05-09 Thread Ryan Thompson
Yes, the lucid builds of emacs are what I have been using for years for exactly this reason. They don't have this problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/543611 Title: emacsclient -c

[Bug 543611] Re: emacsclient -c randomly crashes emacs about 1 in every 5 to 10 times

2012-05-09 Thread Ryan Thompson
There's some nuance here. This bug is GTK-related. If your emacs daemon is not compiled with gtk support (either a terminal-only version of compiled with the lucid toolkit), then you will not see this bug. Even if your emacs is compiled with gtk, you will still not see the bug unless you actually

[Bug 995130] Re: BCM4321 Wireless dropping connection randomly with no indication

2012-05-07 Thread Ryan Thompson
Ok, I set everything to maximum verbosity. I'm tailing syslog, dmesg, and kern.log in a terminal so I can look at them as soon as I notice a disconnection. Do you have a preference for whether I should keep using kernel 3.4 or switch back to 3.2? -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 993752] Re: 12.04 amd64 live CD installs the wrong kernel, yielding a broken system

2012-05-07 Thread Ryan Thompson
The iso's md5sum matches the one here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes But that doesn't rule out the possibility of corruption while creating the USB drive from the iso. However, this doesn't seem like bits being randomly corrupted. Both the 3.2.0-23 kernel installed by the

[Bug 993506] Re: nvidia kernel module fails to build on 3.4.x kernel [fatal error: asm/system.h: No such file or directory]

2012-05-07 Thread Ryan Thompson
There's no need to copy the header file into the 3.4 kernel. You just have the patch the nvidia driver to add a preprocessor directive that removes that line if the kernel version is 3.4 or higher. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 969039] Re: HUD appears when tapping Alt+Left very quickly

2012-05-07 Thread Ryan Thompson
I can confirm that quickly pressing Alt+ left arrow will both cause firefox to go back one page and then cause the HUD to appear. In fact, as far as I can tell, the *only* reason that this doesn't happen every single time is that if you hold down Alt too long, it times out and shows the global

[Bug 995130] Re: BCM4321 Wireless dropping connection randomly with no indication

2012-05-06 Thread Ryan Thompson
That is possible. It's difficult to notice patterns, because it typically takes me a minute or two to notice that the connection has dropped, since I might be downloading something in the background but only notice the problem when I switch to my browser and try to load a new page. I'm not doing

[Bug 995130] Re: BCM4321 Wireless dropping connection randomly with no indication

2012-05-06 Thread Ryan Thompson
Ok, I will try testing with the new kernel. Since the bug only occurs intermittently, I will probably have to run this kernel for at least a full 24 hours of normal use in order to verify that the problem is not happening. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 995130] Re: BCM4321 Wireless dropping connection randomly with no indication

2012-05-06 Thread Ryan Thompson
bcmwl module does not build on 3.4 kernel. I am attaching the DKMS make.log. ** Attachment added: Log from DKMS attempting to build bcmwl on kernel 3.4 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/995130/+attachment/3134169/+files/bcmwl-make.log -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 995669] [NEW] Nvidia driver needs a patch for kernel 3.4

2012-05-06 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: The patch is here: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-nvidia/packages/nvidia-graphics- drivers/trunk/debian/module/debian/patches/kernel-3.4.patch?revision=2894view=copathrev=2894 ** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New

[Bug 995130] Re: BCM4321 Wireless dropping connection randomly with no indication

2012-05-06 Thread Ryan Thompson
I'm about to reboot into 3.4 with an nvidia module built with this patch. We'll see how it works. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/995130 Title: BCM4321 Wireless dropping connection

[Bug 995669] Re: Nvidia driver needs a patch for kernel 3.4

2012-05-06 Thread Ryan Thompson
Actually maybe this patch is better: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=43863d=1335699970 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/995669 Title: Nvidia driver needs a

[Bug 995130] Re: BCM4321 Wireless dropping connection randomly with no indication

2012-05-06 Thread Ryan Thompson
Oops, I meant that comment for another post. However, I have generated a patch that makes the *bcmwl* module build with 3.4, and I'm about to test *that*. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 995677] [NEW] Installing desktop-base forces a GRUB background image

2012-05-06 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: As described here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi- bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608263 When the desktop-base package is installed, you will *always* get a background image for GRUB, and you will lose the pretty aubergine hue during boot. This cannot be changed without editing

[Bug 995669] Re: Nvidia driver needs a patch for kernel 3.4

2012-05-06 Thread Ryan Thompson
Ok, I just booted into 3.4 with an nvidia module built with the above patch (the second one), and it seems to work just fine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/995669 Title: Nvidia

[Bug 995130] Re: BCM4321 Wireless dropping connection randomly with no indication

2012-05-06 Thread Ryan Thompson
Ok, I just patched the bcmwl package, and DKMS was able to build the module for kernel 3.4, and I'm now booted into 3.4 with a working wl module. We'll see how things go from here. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 995677] Re: Installing desktop-base forces a GRUB background image

2012-05-06 Thread Ryan Thompson
By the way, I note that this is more of a problem in Ubuntu than in Debian because consistency and coherence of the theming is much more of a focus in Ubuntu. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 995130] Re: BCM4321 Wireless dropping connection randomly with no indication

2012-05-06 Thread Ryan Thompson
I just experienced exactly the same problem with the kernel 3.4 packages that you gave me. The problem is not fixed in 3.4. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/995130 Title: BCM4321

[Bug 995130] [NEW] BCM4321 Wireless dropping connection randomly with no indication

2012-05-05 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: Since upgrading to 12.04, my wireless connection has been failing randomly. It works fine for an indeterminate time after connecting to my router, and then randomly all traffic ceases, and I become unable to load any websites, download anything, or even ping my router. The

[Bug 995130] Re: BCM4321 Wireless dropping connection randomly with no indication

2012-05-05 Thread Ryan Thompson
Ok, I'll grab those log files after the next time the connection cuts out, but as I said, I haven't previously seen any log entries appearing in any logs at the time of disconnection. Also, I didn't explicitly say so in my initial report, but the worst part about this is that there is NO

[Bug 995130] Re: BCM4321 Wireless dropping connection randomly with no indication

2012-05-05 Thread Ryan Thompson
I'm attaching kern.log and dmesg from shortly after I experienced a loss of connectivity. As I mentioned, there are no log messages at the time of disconnection, which is about 20:15. All the messages in dmesg are from boot time, and the last message in kern.log is: May 5 20:08:54 aeolus kernel:

[Bug 995130] Re: BCM4321 Wireless dropping connection randomly with no indication

2012-05-05 Thread Ryan Thompson
** Attachment added: kern.log https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/995130/+attachment/3132715/+files/kern.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/995130 Title: BCM4321 Wireless

[Bug 892610] Re: pacpl doesn't work with latest Audio::APETags (patch to use Audio::Scan instead)

2012-05-05 Thread Ryan Thompson
pacpl as of 12.04 (possibly earlier) includes the fix proposed here, so I'm marking this as Fix Released. ** Changed in: pacpl (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 994186] Re: VPN connections broken in 12.04

2012-05-04 Thread Ryan Thompson
I can no longer seem to reproduce this error. My VPN connection is working fine now. I'll re-open this if the problem comes back. ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 543611] Re: emacsclient -c randomly crashes emacs about 1 in every 5 to 10 times

2012-05-04 Thread Ryan Thompson
I don't think it has been fixed. It still happens to me in recent Emacs snapshots. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/543611 Title: emacsclient -c randomly crashes emacs about 1 in every

[Bug 994933] [NEW] HUD should not appear when I press Alt + arrow keys

2012-05-04 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: I frequently use Alt + Arrow keys to navigate forward and backward in Firefox. It seems that unlike most keys, the arrow keys don't suppress the HUD when used with Alt. So if I quickly press and release Alt + an arrow key together, the HUD comes up when it should not do so.

[Bug 994933] Re: HUD should not appear when I press Alt + arrow keys

2012-05-04 Thread Ryan Thompson
It seems that most keys on the keyboard do not trigger the bug. No matter how quickly I press Alt+W, I can't get the HUD to come up. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/994933 Title: HUD

[Bug 720912] Re: Maverick regression: Dell M1330 backlight brightness messed up

2012-05-04 Thread Ryan Thompson
Still 3 levels in 12.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912 Title: Maverick regression: Dell M1330 backlight brightness messed up To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 612125] Re: [SigmaTel STAC9228] Sound card lies about mixer dB levels

2012-05-04 Thread Ryan Thompson
That mailing list thread references two git commits that are supposed to fix this: http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-kernel.git;a=commit;h=de8c85f7840e5e29629de95f5af24297fb325e0b http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-kernel.git;a=commit;h=a74ccea51d4314632a81d568d59bf885e5b09d93 Is there any

[Bug 612125] Re: [SigmaTel STAC9228] Sound card lies about mixer dB levels

2012-05-04 Thread Ryan Thompson
Also this alsa-lib commit: http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa- lib.git;a=commit;h=2f6206da0c1ff88235e6eca0077343f22a4b43ee which I found here: http://www.digipedia.pl/usenet/thread/11148/729/ Also related: http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/821 ** Bug watch added: PulseAudio sound server #821

[Bug 993768] [NEW] Unity Dash obscures keyboard shortcut overlay

2012-05-03 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: When the Dash is open, the keyboard shortcut overlay appears obscured below it, making it unreadable. The keyboard shortcut overlay should appear either above the Dash or not at all while the Dash is open. ** Affects: unity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided

[Bug 994161] [NEW] Unity Super+[1-9] shortcuts to switch apps don't work consistently

2012-05-03 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: I frequently use the Super + [0-9] keyboard shortcuts to switch to specific applications. However, these shortcuts usually fail to work when executed quickly. In order to ensure a successful application switch, I have to hold down the super key for at least half a second

[Bug 994186] [NEW] VPN connections broken in 12.04

2012-05-03 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: In 12.04, any time I try to connect to a VPN connection, I get the following message in /var/log/syslog: May 3 12:59:06 aeolus NetworkManager[25368]: warn connection /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/64 failed to activate: (5) Base connection for VPN connection not

[Bug 993752] Re: 12.04 amd64 live CD installs the wrong kernel, yielding a broken system

2012-05-03 Thread Ryan Thompson
I don't know what the appropriate package to file this against is. It is a bug in the Live CD installer. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/993752 Title: 12.04 amd64 live CD installs the

[Bug 994161] Re: Unity Super+[1-9] shortcuts to switch apps don't work consistently

2012-05-03 Thread Ryan Thompson
** Description changed: I frequently use the Super + [0-9] keyboard shortcuts to switch to specific applications. However, these shortcuts usually fail to work when executed quickly. In order to ensure a successful application switch, I have to hold down the super key for at least half a

[Bug 993752] [NEW] 12.04 amd64 live CD installs the wrong kernel, yielding a broken system

2012-05-02 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: I installed Ubuntu 12.04 from scratch using the amd64 live CD. When I booted into the system, my mouse and 3d drivers were not working. I eventially figured out that no kernel modules were being loaded at all (lsmod showed absolutely nothing). Looking further, I realized that

[Bug 993752] Re: 12.04 amd64 live CD installs the wrong kernel, yielding a broken system

2012-05-02 Thread Ryan Thompson
One thing I should have mentioned is that I used the Live CD to make a bootable USB disk using Unetbootin, and then used that to install my system. I did not actually burn it to a CD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 830840] Re: Chat window will not open

2011-12-08 Thread Ryan Thompson
Still broken in 3.2.0.1-0ubuntu1.1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830840 Title: Chat window will not open To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 651008] Re: Regression in wireless performance under Maverick when on battery power (broadcom)

2011-12-01 Thread Ryan Thompson
Here's a better workaround: Download the patch that I am attaching to this comment. Then copy the wireless power script into /etc, and apply my patch to it: $ sudo cp /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/wireless /etc/pm/power.d/wireless $ sudo patch /etc/pm/power.d/wireless PATCHFILE Putting a script in

[Bug 892610] Re: pacpl doesn't work with latest Audio::APETags (patch to use Audio::Scan instead)

2011-11-26 Thread Ryan Thompson
The upstream author of pacpl has accepted this patch, and has stated that he will include it in the next release. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/892610 Title: pacpl doesn't work with

[Bug 892610] [NEW] pacpl doesn't work with latest Audio::APETags (patch to use Audio::Scan instead)

2011-11-19 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: The latest Audio::APETags perl module is just a wrapper for Audio::Scan, which should be used instead. It does not have the same interface as the old version of Audio::APETags, so pacpl fails when used with it. I am attaching a patch that makes pacpl use Audio::Scan instead

[Bug 892610] Re: pacpl doesn't work with latest Audio::APETags (patch to use Audio::Scan instead)

2011-11-19 Thread Ryan Thompson
** Patch added: Use Audio::Scan instead of Audio::APETags https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/892610/+attachment/2602050/+files/rct-fix.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/892610

[Bug 778205] Re: emacs daemon inhibits logout

2011-10-30 Thread Ryan Thompson
This problem is worse in GNOME 3, where there is no way to skip the 60-second delay on log out (except by killing the Emacs daemon, which kind of defeats the point of having a daemon). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 720912] Re: Maverick regression: Dell M1330 backlight brightness messed up

2011-10-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
I'm unmarking the acpid package as being affected, because it isn't clear what is causing this problem, especially since the hardware stack shuffle (eliminating hal and so on). ** Package changed: acpid (Ubuntu) = ubuntu -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 720912] Re: Maverick regression: Dell M1330 backlight brightness messed up

2011-10-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
Adding options video brightness_switch_enabled=0 somewhere in /etc/modprobe.d brings it back down to two levels in 11.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912 Title: Maverick

[Bug 720912] Re: Maverick regression: Dell M1330 backlight brightness messed up

2011-10-14 Thread Ryan Thompson
This bug has gotten even worse in 11.10. Now every press of the backlight adjustment key changes the backlight brightness by *three* levels. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/720912

[Bug 873704] [NEW] 11.04 logout menu says reboot required before 11.10 upgrade finishes

2011-10-13 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: I am currently halfway through the 11.04 to 11.10 upgrade process, and I just noticed that the power menu in the top right is colored red, and has the Restart to complete update option. This is bad, because if someone didn't know better, they might take that suggestion and

[Bug 720912] Re: Maverick regression: Dell M1330 backlight brightness messed up

2011-08-15 Thread Ryan Thompson
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected natty running-unity ** Description changed: The Dell M1330 backlight has exactly 8 levels of brightness. I expect each press of the brightness adjustment keys to change the brightness by one level. When I use the keyboard to adjust the

[Bug 818851] [NEW] Unity's Files Folders search box doesn't do anything

2011-07-31 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: When I want to search for a file using Unity, I open the Files Folders place and I start typing in the search box at the top. Unfortunately, typing in this search box has no effect whatsoever, other than making letters appear in the box. No results are filtered, and pressing

[Bug 811606] [NEW] libwebcam needs additional build-dependency on libv4l-dev

2011-07-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: It seems that videodev.h has been removed from linux 2.6.38 or something, so libwebcam doesn't build. I found the fix for that here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5842235/ Basically, I needed to install libv4l-dev and then change the sourced of libwebcam to refer to its

[Bug 811604] [NEW] uvcdynctrl spams uvcdynctrl-udev.log and fills up filesystem

2011-07-16 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: I have a Dell XPS M1330 with the following webcam, as reported by lsusb: Bus 007 Device 039: ID 05a9:7670 OmniVision Technologies, Inc. OV7670 Webcam It seems that the connection between the webcam and motherboard is a bit loose, because when I pivot the lid, the little

[Bug 786795] [NEW] Unity's search doesn't learn my favorite apps

2011-05-22 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: unity When I frequently select a particular application in Unity's application search interface, I expect that application to appear at the top of subsequent matching searches. For example, suppose that I press the Super key and then type trans into the

[Bug 604188] Re: byobu should have an option to disable 256-color mode

2011-02-28 Thread Ryan Thompson
Yeah, that's exactly what I ended up doing, once I figured out that the ~/.byobu/profile would completely override the system one. Thanks for your attention on this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 720912] [NEW] Maverick regression: Dell M1330 backlight brightness messed up

2011-02-17 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: The Dell M1330 backlight has exactly 8 levels of brightness. I expect each press of the brightness adjustment keys to change the brightness by one level. When I use the keyboard to adjust the brightness in GNOME, it sometimes changes by one level, and sometimes changes by two

[Bug 604188] Re: byobu should have an option to disable 256-color mode

2011-01-27 Thread Ryan Thompson
Well, I can just fix it by editing my ~/.byobu/profile, and you could forget about it and hope the KDE folks eventually fix Konsole. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604188 Title:

Re: [Bug 604188] Re: byobu should have an option to disable 256-color mode

2011-01-27 Thread Ryan Thompson
I suppose. But I'm not sure what to set them to. On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Dustin Kirkland dustin.kirkl...@gmail.com wrote: Can you just add overrides for these in ~/.screenrc? -- You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug.

Re: [Bug 202288] Re: Totem loses sound when seeking or when switching language

2011-01-26 Thread Ryan Thompson
I haven't seen this in a while either. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Kimiko Koopman kim...@xs4all.nl wrote: Wow, it's been almost three years since I reported that bug. I switched to MPlayer shortly afterwards, and haven't really looked back at Totem. Anyways, I just did a quick check,

[Bug 604188] Re: byobu should have an option to disable 256-color mode

2011-01-25 Thread Ryan Thompson
** Attachment added: Stock Byobu in Konsole with no bold colors https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/byobu/+bug/604188/+attachment/1806932/+files/byobu-no-bold.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 604188] Re: byobu should have an option to disable 256-color mode

2011-01-25 Thread Ryan Thompson
I'm attaching screenshots. This first one is byobu in its default configuration, showing the lack of bold colors. ** Attachment added: Stock Byobu in Konsole with no bold colors https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/byobu/+bug/604188/+attachment/1806933/+files/byobu-no-bold.png -- You

[Bug 604188] Re: byobu should have an option to disable 256-color mode

2011-01-25 Thread Ryan Thompson
Here is byobu with the suggested patch applied. Note the bolder look. ** Attachment added: Byobu in Konsole no bold colors after disabling 256-color https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/byobu/+bug/604188/+attachment/1806934/+files/byobu-bold.png -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 697415] Re: Circular scrolling always resets to middle of touchpad on restart

2011-01-15 Thread Ryan Thompson
For what it's worth, you can add synclient CircScrollTrigger=3 to your startup programs, changing the number as appropriate. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/697415 Title: Circular

[Bug 655948] Re: byobu-launcher-install breaks symlinks between different shell profiles

2010-10-21 Thread Ryan Thompson
Still happens in 3.5: r...@aeolus:~% ls -l .profile .zprofile -rw-r--r-- 1 ryan ryan 1121 2010-10-09 14:44 .profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 ryan ryan8 2010-10-03 15:13 .zprofile - .profile r...@aeolus:~% byobu-launcher-install r...@aeolus:~% ls -l .profile .zprofile -rw-r--r-- 1 ryan ryan 1121

[Bug 655948] [NEW] byobu-launcher-install breaks symlinks between different shell profiles

2010-10-06 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: byobu In my home directory, .zprofile (the zsh profile script) is a symlink to .profile (the general profile script). When I run byobu-launcher- install, .zprofile becomes a regular file that is a copy of .profile, instead of a symlink to it. **

[Bug 655948] Re: byobu-launcher-install breaks symlinks between different shell profiles

2010-10-06 Thread Ryan Thompson
** Description changed: Binary package hint: byobu - In my home directory, .zprofile (the zsh profile script) is aliased to + In my home directory, .zprofile (the zsh profile script) is a symlink to .profile (the general profile script). When I run byobu-launcher- install, .zprofile

[Bug 654608] [NEW] byobu-launcher should always return false if it decides not to start byobu

2010-10-04 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: byobu In /usr/bin/byobu-launcher, there are a number of checks for conditions in which byobu should not be started. In most of these cases, if the launcher decides not to launch byobu, it also returns false. However, there is at least one case where it

[Bug 654608] Re: byobu-launcher should always return false if it decides not to start byobu

2010-10-04 Thread Ryan Thompson
** Patch added: fix-dumb-term.patch https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/654608/+attachment/1671472/+files/fix-dumb-term.patch -- byobu-launcher should always return false if it decides not to start byobu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/654608 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 629018] [NEW] Savedefault should not be set on recovery mode boot options

2010-09-02 Thread Ryan Thompson
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: grub2 I set GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true in /etc/default/grub, and it works. However, apparently the recovery mode boot entries *also* save themselves as default. So if you reboot into recovery mode, then fix something, and then reboot again, you'll be back in

[Bug 549028] Re: ambience theme has syntax error in gtkrc

2010-08-30 Thread Ryan Thompson
This also happens using the beta of the maverick light-themes, and causes skype to use the ugly default GTK theme. Maybe the Skype binary is linked against an old version of Qt whose GTK mode is unable to handle the new Murrine options? Here's the error message:

[Bug 462889] Re: Usability: Power History x-axis is useless (almost)

2010-08-28 Thread Ryan Thompson
Yes, it's much better now. I suppose you can mark it as fixed. -- Usability: Power History x-axis is useless (almost) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/462889 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 604188] Re: byobu should have an option to disable 256-color mode

2010-08-23 Thread Ryan Thompson
--- byobu-3.1.orig/usr/share/byobu/profiles/common +++ byobu-3.1/usr/share/byobu/profiles/common @@ -80,10 +80,10 @@ termcapinfo xterm* ti@:te@ altscreen on -# Enable 256 color terminal -attrcolor b .I -termcapinfo xterm 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm' -defbce on +## Enable 256 color

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